Created Reality

“Created reality” is a new term for “Alternative Facts.”  It might also be the new term for such words as hallucination, conspiracy theory, fantasy, paranoia, delirium tremens (DTs), apparition, chimera, or phantasmagoria. I can’t recall where I first heard the term “Created Reality.”  It probably came from some  “left-wing media group,” even though, it seems to me, Fox News is much better at creating realities. The most recent Fox created reality was framed in the title of an Opinion piece: “Will Starbuck’s Become America’s Largest Chain of Homeless Shelters?”  This being suggested because Starbucks now sees itself as a “third place”—a term borrowed, says the article, "from contemporary left-wing sociology.”  Beware, the article says, because “Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz may seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2020.”  Created reality?  Yes, it is created reality and the racial innuendo embedded within such distortion is rampant.

There are dozens of websites which post all kinds of created realities—stories about John McCain being a traitor to former Secretary of State John Kerry facing felony charges.  The headline says, “Breaking:  Major Announcement Out of the White House—John Kerry Facing Felony Charges.”  This is a created reality.  It is a false statement—an unreality.  Another headline from such websites reads:  “Former US Atty:  Obama Committed Crime of ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ Dimensions Against Trump.”  This is a created reality.  It is false.  There is no evidence to support it.  Evidence has no bearing or significance however in created reality as was “evident” in the Birther Movement (fringe theorists who believe Obama was not born in the U.S. and was therefore ineligible for the presidency) after a state-issued birth certificate was produced. (Among those who ignored the evidence or found it somehow fraudulent is our current president).

Without any evidence other than yet another Fox News inspired “created reality” Mr. Trump has announced “Spygate,” an “evidence-free suggestion that the Obama Justice Department had an undercover operative informing on Trump’s campaign.”  This is created reality.  Remember Sean Spicer’s statement the day after the inauguration:  “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in-person and around the world.”  That set the stage and we’ve had a lot of other “created realities” ever since.

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